Burning Blox Gigablox

Burning Blox Gigablox: Slot Overview

Call the fire brigade peeps, Yggdrasil Gaming partner Jelly's in the mood for setting the reels alight in its online slot Burning Blox Gigablox. As the final word in the title says, this game is powered by Gigablox, a gaming mechanic developed originally by Yggdrasil Gaming but passed around amongst a number of its associates by now. One associate that has taken a shine to the feature is Jelly itself, as Burning Blox Gigablox is the studio's third release to date to feature it. The third time's the charm and all that, so they say, so let's check if this saying applies in the case of Burning Blox Gigablox.

At first, we'd have to say, maybe not, because Burning Blox Gigablox is a pretty standard-looking. Embers float from the bottom of the screen to the top, there's a bit of burning going on in the bottom segment of the background and a fruity tooty, move your booty jazz track rocks the airwaves. Burning Blox Gigablox has gone for a style which the game info calls an 'Iconic European casino theme', and nails it from an audio-visual perspective while being neither hard on the eyes nor particularly interesting to behold.

If players are in the mood for some iconic European casino-themed gaming with a bit of Gigablox thrown into the mix, the next move is picking an appropriate stake. In Burning Blox Gigablox, stake options go as low as 25 p/c or as high as $/€100 per spin. It'll help if a highly volatile experience is what you're looking for, as Burning Blox Gigablox is rated 4.5 out of 5 in this regard while spitting out an RTP of 96% - be on the lookout for lower return values, though. Where the action takes place is on a 5-reel gaming grid with 4 rows of symbols and 20 paylines for evaluating wins along.

If 3 or more matching pay symbols land along a winline from the leftmost side of the grid, on adjacent reels, players win some cash. The values when hitting a line made up of 5 matching symbols is 2 to 16 times the bet. Its pay symbols include an item of fruit which looks like a plum, a pear, oranges, watermelon, lemons, grapes, bells, cherries, a Bar, and a fiery 7 symbol. Many pay symbols have a glistening quality to them as if sweating in all that heat. As well as landing in a 1x1 size, any symbol can land as 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4 sized Gigablox. Gigablox are guaranteed to appear on every spin.

Burning Blox Gigablox: Slot Features

Shifting the focus to the remaining features, in Burning Blox Gigablox, we find diamond symbols, free spins, and a bonus buy.

Diamond Symbols

Diamond symbols can be wild, and in this form, they are able to replace all symbols in Burning Blox Gigablox except the scatter. Diamonds are also a scatter-paying symbol, so if 6 diamond symbols land in the base game, a cash prize is awarded. During free spins, if 4 or more diamond symbols hit, a cash prize is awarded.

Free Spins

Free spins are triggered when at least 5 scatter symbols are in view. When 5 or more scatters hit, each scatter reveals either 1 or 2 free spins, the total of which is awarded to the player. As well as diamond symbols paying out when at least 4 of them are in view, players are advised by the game info to watch out for even more 7 symbols during the feature. Lastly, 1 or 2 free spins are awarded whenever a scatter lands in view.

Bonus Buy

Burning Blox Gigablox's bonus buy option lets users buy their way to the free spins round for the cost of 60 times the bet. Since it does not say otherwise, it would appear the RTP remains the same when buying free spins.

Burning Blox Gigablox: Slot Verdict

These fruity, European casino, classic, retro, flaming 7s - however you want to class them slots - are sort of like James Bond or John McLane; they just can't be taken down. No matter what is flung at them, they keep coming back for more. Truly versatile, truly iconic, or just constantly being revived by casino game makers who either love the format or don't have any better ideas at the time, they return again and again. This is great news for players who lap this sort of thing up, like a shotgun blast to the crotch for gamblers fed up with them. To be fair, a good game is a good game, no matter the theme and classically designed slots can still be impactful. Unfortunately, Burning Blox Gigablox didn't really have the goods to be classed as such.

Pfff, it might be alright if you're in the mood for this sort of window dressing over a Gigablox-powered gaming engine. Burning Blox Gigablox might not win beauty competitions any time soon, but it won't be losing them, either. Rather it sits in the middle of the bell curve in terms of both looks and gameplay. On the gameplay side of things, there's not much here to get overly excited about. One of the more original elements is the way diamond symbols can double as wilds and scatter-paying symbols. However, as far as scatter-paying features go, Burning Blox Gigablox's feels half done. The reason for this impression is that the values of diamond wins aren't prominently displayed on a ladder or noted in the game info, making one wonder how 'high' the top values are. Probably not massive since the game as a whole has a default max multiplier of 3,146.68x.

To wrap up, Burning Blox Gigablox might be okay for players into this sort of thing, possibly, for a bit. However, for a stronger, potentially bigger thrill alternative, maybe check out 7 Gold Gigablox from 4ThePlayer, which offers a similar vibe to go with a 70,000x top prize and clearer scatter symbol prize win feature.